ct scan for sinuses?
hi.
i have succeeded in freaking myself out a little bit tonight. my sister's friend was diagnosed with BC a year and a half ago and thanks to her i started doing almost obsessive breast self exams which resulted in me finding my stage 1 tumor in late august. she got brain mets in september and lung mets (she's triple negative). she went into hospice today so i have been feeling terrible.
tonight i was reading various posts on this site and found a post by julierene who started out stage 1 like me and now has brain mets. she hasn't posted since november. she'd had a CT scan because she thought she had sinus headaches.
on thursday i had herceptin and saw my oncologist as usual. i told her about my bloody, dry, raw nose and how it does not respond to saline solution and i told her how my head often feels pressured so much so that i can't wear my damn wig half the time. to my surprise, she ordered a CT scan for this monday. she said she didn't want to give me antibiotics without being sure i had a sinus infection. i found this very curious and somewhat over the top, but said OK....
well now i am a nervous wreck having read about julierene's experience. i don't actually have headaches, so i am trying to rein my mind in, but you know how it is, right? my imagination has run away with me. i now think my oncologist must have ordered the CT scan to be cautious about a lot more than a sinus infection. or is it normal to get sent for such an expensive test for such a mundane thing? is she just careful because i'm on chemo? ugh. thank god i have klonopin because i am gonna be using it for the next 2 days. i feel like an alarmist now, too overly influenced by my sister's friend's entry into hospice and what i read tonight. it's so easy to get scared.
valerie
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8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast
10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin.
1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010.
2/10 began 7 wks of radiation
6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer
8/10 got my last remaining ovary out
10/10 mammogram all clear
3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US
needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew!
7/10 switched to Arimidex
8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex
Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin
Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much.
back on Tamoxifen 1/2013.
blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen
tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer.
cancer's screwing with another man i love
2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!
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